Although I have had an Instagram account for about 7 months, I have mostly ignored it.  That was until three weeks ago when I started to post all of my photos from my ‘Oxford at Night‘ photo project onto my Instagram account.  This has had an amazing effect on my Google rankings, taking me from the seventh page to the third for searches of Photographer Oxford.

This remarkable change in rankings may partly be due to receiving a Photo of The Day award three times this week from various self appointed Instagram reposting accounts.  These reposts do give more exposure and help to bring more people to your account so it probably isn’t worth getting to upset about people reposting your work and the copyright implications.  These were the photographs:

Today’s #photooftheday is this stunning dusk scene of #oxford from South Park, captured by @guyoxford. Wow. Keep using #igersoxford for the chance to be featured. Chosen by @igersoxford moderator @benm.photo #visitoxford #igers #igersuk #lovegreatbritain

A photo posted by Instagrammers Oxford (@igersoxford) on Mar 30, 2016 at 11:24am PDT

PHOTO OF THE DAY . Original pic: @guyoxford . CONGRATULATIONS. Your pic has been featured as one of the best of the day . Selected by: @jldalgo . * Thank you for following @bnw_just and tagging #bnw_just * . @hubdirectory member Follow @hubdirectory . #superstarz_bw #bnw_planet #bnw_piemonte #bnw_life_shots #master_pics_bnw #bnw_top #blacknwhite_perfection #stunningbnw #awesomebnw #no_colours_ #bnw_sniper #bw_divine #turkobjektif_bw #bestphotogram_bnw #bnw_silhouettes #pocket_bnw #igworldclub_ #bnw_switzerland #world_bnw #ae_bnw #rustlord_bnw #top_bnw #bnw_rome #amateurs_bnw #bnw_demand #bnw_lombardia #ig_global_bw —————————————- #guyoxford_bnw_just

A photo posted by @bnw_just (@bnw_just) on Apr 1, 2016 at 5:05am PDT

And the same photo was also posted by foto_blackwhite

Also this week I visited Witney for my friends new estate agent office opening party and did some night photography while I was there::

Canon EOS 5DS R (70mm, f/6.3, 25 sec, ISO100)

The Buttercross

And finally, while I was there, I took some photos of the new Taylor Cox office:

Canon EOS 5DS R (57mm, f/5.6, 10 sec, ISO50)

Taylor Cox

You can find more of these photos in my Architecture album and on my Facebook Page